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Iranian Cyber Army Moves Into Botnet Renting

Posted by Soulskill on from the god-help-you-if-you-dent-the-drywall dept.

angry tapir writes "A group of malicious hackers who attacked Twitter and the Chinese search engine Baidu are also apparently running a for-rent botnet, according to new research from Seculert. The so-called Iranian Cyber Army also took credit last month for an attack on TechCrunch's European website. In that incident, the group installed a page on TechCrunch's site that redirected visitors to a server that bombarded their PCs with exploits in an attempt to install malicious software."

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  1. Re:No Connection with Tehran by PitaBred · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You expect someone who says "America, Fuck Yeah!" to understand the difference between Persians and Arabs?

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